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Taking a trip to Tacoma, Washington, whether it be for business or pleasure, can be a great experience. However, if this is your first time visiting the city of Tacoma or you simply have not been in awhile, then you may be feeling a bit lost as far as where to stay while you are visiting. After all, with so many hotels to choose from, finding the one that will be best for you based on your budget and needs can be a real challenge. (more…)
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Tacoma Washington is a beautiful place to visit. Although, the winter months aren't always an enjoyable time to travel there, unless you like winter weather and lots of it. The best time to visit the city is in the summertime.
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Tacoma, Washington attracts many visitors every year. It's location on the Puget Sound and its close proximity to Seattle entices visitors to come year round. Most tourists visit the area during the summer and sometimes in the fall while the leaves are changing. Why visit Tacoma, Washington off season? Because the winter months have a few benefits rewarding the tourists willing to come.
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There are many things to do when visiting the city of Tacoma, Washington, especially for those more interested in the arts. Located on Washington's Puget Sound, south of Seattle, Tacoma is home to the a lively Museum District and an exceptional performing arts theater, making the town a great attraction for any art lover.
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A visitor to Tacoma, Washington could be easily overwhelmed by all of the history surrounding them. Luckily, the National Historic Register has officially recognized the most important historical sites. While you still might not be able to hit all of these the first time through, history buffs can use this guide as an introduction to the best of what Tacoma has to offer.
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New national science standards that make the teaching of global warming part of the public school curriculum are slated to be released this month, potentially ending an era in which climate skepticism has been allowed to seep into the nation's classrooms.
The Next Generation Science Standards were developed by the National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nonprofit Achieve and more than two dozen states. The latest draft recommends that educators teach the evidence for man-made climate change starting as early as elementary school and incorporate it into all science classes, ranging from earth science to chemistry. By eighth grade, students should understand that "human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth's mean surface temperature (global warming)," the standards say.
They're "revolutionary," said Mark McCaffrey, programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a nonprofit that defends evolution and climate education and opposes the teaching of religious views as science.
The 26 states that helped write the standards are expected to adopt them. Another 15 or so have indicated they may accept them—meaning climate change instruction could make its way into classrooms in 40-plus states.
James Taylor, a senior fellow at the conservative Heartland Institute, which is developing a school curriculum that promotes climate skepticism, said the standards' stance on climate change is based on "unscientific speculation and hype." But he also said the group has no plans to fight their adoption by the states.
The nation's largest education publishers are already studying how to incorporate the new standards into their materials. They will likely appear in some of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's materials as early as next year, said Tony Artuso, director of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for the company.
The standards are also being fast-tracked at McGraw-Hill.
"No one is sitting around waiting for the final standards to start their conversation," said Jeff Livingston, McGraw-Hill's senior vice president of education policy. "They've been studying the drafts so they can start making changes immediately."
Texas, one of the country's largest textbook buyers, is among the few states that don't plan to adopt the science standards anytime soon. Texas also refused to accept the 2010 Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics that nearly every other state has adopted.
"It's not that we don't agree with the scientific information in the new standards," said DeEtta Culbertson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Education Agency. "We just choose to write our own. That's how we've always done it."
In the past, the Lone Star state's refusal might have been enough to keep publishers from using the science standards as the framework for their learning materials. But a 2011 law gave Texas schools the right to ignore the state Board of Education's textbook recommendations and use state funds to buy materials of their choosing. The rise of e-textbooks and other digital learning materials has also reduced the clout of large states, because publishers can create digitized textbooks and curricula for a variety of markets, not just the biggest buyers.
But what has made the new science standards so influential is the role the states themselves played in writing them.
"Texas is obviously important to us since it is such a big constituency," said Kelly McGrath, vice president of science product development at Pearson Education. "But having so many states backing [the standards] is a powerful message."
"We anticipate that 80 to 90 percent of states will either adopt the standards in full or use them to shape their curricula," said Livingston, from McGraw-Hill. "We can't ignore that."
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The idea of federal education standards emerged in the 1980s, following the publication of the Reagan administration's "A Nation at Risk." The blue-ribbon report warned that the quality of public education was slipping compared to other nations, putting American economic competitiveness at risk. Education organizations and federal agencies responded by creating national guidelines for nearly every academic subject over the next decade.
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History buffs often point to General Ulysses S. Grant and Winston Churchill as strong leaders. Were they, really?
The biographies of these men are immensely intriguing-and, in some aspects, eerily similar. Both had extremely successful wartime careers followed by far less successful civilian lives. Grant's presidency became mired in scandals and a five-year economic depression. Churchill failed to prove himself as an effective peacetime prime minister and resigned from office in 1955. What could they have done to be better leaders after their respective wars?
If Grant had only prosecuted his corrupt cabinet members or more skillfully addressed the issues that fueled the nation's lingering economic woes…? If Churchill had only been more diplomatic within his own country…? If they had, history might view their peacetime accomplishments more favorably. In the end, however, we remember them simply as two great, larger-than-life wartime heroes who failed to live up to their leadership potential later on. Could their biggest mistakes simply have been in believing that they actually had any talent at all for leading people when the fighting ended?
Right people, wrong role
In building an organization, how do you avoid mistakes like these, where the right people end up in the wrong role? It is especially important to realize that the misplacement of a person is two mistakes, not one. Not only is the person NOT in a role where he/she can excel, but he/she also is preventing that role from being filled by the right person. From an organizational design point of view, the classic model calls for management to:
How does this prevent the wrong person from getting into the wrong role and put the right person into the right role? It doesn't. Instead, this model relies more on trial and error and disregards the single most important aspect of great performance- individual talent. A much better model would be one that begins with individual talent and builds on strengths.
The strength-based model
A strength-based organization is built upon three premises:
We see talent around us all the time-the musician who can quickly learn any instrument; the natural athlete who rarely loses; the attentive salesman who makes the buying experience enjoyable; etc. We see these people in action and think to ourselves, "I wish I could be like that." This is true almost any time we see someone do particularly well at something. But, there are only two important differences between us and them: (1) they have a talent that we don't; and (2) they have put years into developing their talent into strengths and we have just put in years.
Studies indicate that by age 15, individuals have become "wired" a certain way. Someone who is "Analytical" at age 15 will be "Analytical" at age 85. Someone who is strong in "Command" at age 15 will still be strong in "Command" at age 75 (where "Command" is the natural ability to take charge). Any naturally occurring patterns of thought, feeling or behavior are what we generally call a talent. The kid who is naturally good at math or the writer who can easily find the perfect combination of words have "talents" and, for better or for worse, such talents are not learnable or transferable.
Could you have "learned" to be good at math in high school? Yes-sort of-but to what level? Was studying hard ever going to make you as good as the math wizard who sat two rows ahead of you in class-especially if he/she ALSO was studying hard? If so, you should have studied harder, hoping that the math wiz wasn't studying harder as well. In fact, why didn't you give up your entire social life and study nothing but math? Yes, you would have gotten better at it-but to what level? On the other hand, what if your real talent were in writing? Spending hours getting "better" at math would have meant that you were NOT spending hours getting "great" at writing-where your true talent really might be.
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In Nebraska, in the 1950s, a program was instituted in the public schools to test the relative effectiveness of three different reading-improvement methodologies. The program was particularly interesting in that it resulted in three discoveries:
This last bullet-pointed discovery was a big surprise to many people, primarily because it had been so easy to believe that the greatest opportunity for improvement would have been in the area of weakness. Instead, as we now have begun to understand, an individual's true chance for greatness lies in his/her focusing on areas of natural talent. In other words, find what you are good at and focus on getting great at it.
An abundance of talent
It is easy to believe that talents are rare, probably because we have more nontalents than talents. It is only in comparison, however, that talents are rare. The truth is that we are surrounded by an abundance of talent. Unfortunately, most of us in positions of management have been trained to focus on weaknesses as our greatest opportunity of improvement-mainly because weaknesses are easy to see and the perceived gap is more obvious. Talents, in contrast, often are hidden or unrecognized when glimpsed.
To build a strength-based organization, it is important to raise our skill level in recognizing talent. Signs of talent include:
Building talents into strengths
Imagine if you have the opportunity to send only one of your employees to a training course. Would you be better sending your lowest performer to a remedial course or your best performer to an advanced class? If your goal is to have everyone meet a minimum standard, then "fixing"' the lowest performer may be what's required. But, if your goal is to increase your competitive edge, you need to send the best performer to the advanced class.
Quite simply, focus your training budget on your highest performers and build their talents into strengths. This does not mean that you should ignore weaknesses-they must be identified and addressed. Remember, though, that the core of a true weakness is a non-talent.
In most cases, a non-talent is irrelevant. We all have lots of non-talents and, for the most part, no one ever notices. It is only when we put a non-talent on display that it becomes a weakness. If a shortcoming in an individual's performance is found, is it based on lack of talent (a true weakness), lack of skills or lack of desire? Lack of skill and/or desire can be addressed directly-but a lack of talent is different. You can't really fix a lack of talent, or, to be blunt, put in what God left out. When faced with a lack of talent, the options include:
Matching strengths to roles
The third characteristic of a strength-based organization is the matching of strengths to the role. This generally is done in one of two ways.
In the first way, many roles (especially unique roles/single-person roles) can be redefined to exclude individual non-talents. A business unit leader might be wonderful at managing the people in the group, but less talented at recognizing market trends. This situation calls for redefining the role and assigning strategic planning elsewhere.
The second way to match strengths to roles is to ensure that a role has clearly defined outcomes and very fl exible methods. The classic example where this is done right is in sales (i.e., "Role-Salesman, Goal-$500K monthly sales"). Someone could be a "numbers-game" salesperson who makes as many calls as possible in an hour or a relationship builder who focuses on select opportunities. It doesn't really matter, as long as he/she consistently meets the $500K monthly sales goal.
Understanding the concept of the "strengthbased organization" and the foundation of great team performance built upon individual talent makes it easier for us to understand the dilemmas faced by Grant and Churchill as they tried to lead peacetime societies. If they could join our discussion today, no doubt they, too, would readily admit that they were much better suited to filling their wartime positions. It is pure conjecture as to what drove Grant and Churchill and their desire to seek the high offices they did at the conclusion of their wars. If we could hazard a guess, though, it would probably be that it was the lure of the offices rather than a love of the actual day-to-day execution of a political system that drove them. The continual compromises and deal-making necessary to be effective in a peacetime environment played to neither man's aggressive, "total victory" nature. In fact, both men struggled in their respective systems during their careers prior to their wars. It was only in wartime environments that their strengths were perfectly suited for their respective roles.
If Grant and Churchill had been truly honest with themselves, they would likely have realized that peacetime politics was not their talent and continued pursuit of high office was in neither their nations' nor their own best interests. How are you and your organization building on your strengths? MT
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Austin360.com: UT appoints new director of Butler School of Music
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Mary Ellen Poole, BM '81, has been appointed as director of the University of Texas' Butler School of Music and holder of the Florence Thelma Hall Centennial Chair in Music.
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A Baylor alum starring in the TV adaptation of Fargo? You betcha. Allison Tolman, BFA '04, plays the female lead in the televised version of "Fargo," a 10-episode series premiering tonight at 9 p.m. CT on FX. Tolman plays a rookie deputy in the program, which is based on the 1996 movie that AFI named one […]
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Rogers Pope Sr., who earned his degree in economics from Baylor, has been selected as one of four 2014 honorees to be inducted to the Texas Bankers Hall of Fame. The chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Texas Bank and Trust in Longview is a former member of the Baylor Board of Regents and the Hankamer School of Business Advisory Council.
Mental Trauma persists a year after West fertilizer blast
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Article about the mental health of those who experienced the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, quotes Jim Ellor, Ph.D., a professor in Baylor's School of Social Work who has worked with a team of therapists to provide counseling to residents since the explosion.
Midland Daily News: Study: Stronger kids have less risk of diabetes, heart disease
April 17, 2014
Article on a recent study that suggests adolescent boys and girls who have greater muscle strength are at a lower risk for heart disease and diabetes. Paul M. Gordon, Ph.D., chair and professor of health, human performance and recreation at Baylor's School of Education, was the study's corresponding author and noted that strengthening activities may be just as important as aerobic fitness. (Tonya Lewis, assistant director of Baylor Media Communications, placed this story.)
Psychology Today: 5 Simple Steps to End Any Fight
Article offering suggestions on how to resolve conflict in relationships mentions a research by Keith Sanford, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and neuroscience in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences, who found that negative communication between couples doesn't always result in negative resolutions and that avoiding negative communication doesn't always result in positive resolutions. (This story was placed by Terry Goodrich, assistant director of Baylor Media Communications, who covers the psychology and neuroscience department.)
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Alum's book captures first responders' stories from West
A year ago today, the Baylor community sprang into action following the tragic explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, just 20 miles up I-35 from Waco. Students organized a midnight prayer rally on campus just a few hours after the blast. The next day was scheduled to be Diadeloso, but was quickly turned […]
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Baylor School of Education Professor Honored with Outstanding Professor Award
WACO, Texas (April 17, 2014) — Paul La Bounty, Ph.D., associate professor of health, human performance and recreation (HHPR) in the Baylor School of Education, is the recipient of the Collins Outstanding Professor Award for 2014. The Collins Professor is chosen each year by a vote of Baylor's senior class.
Baylor Students Try to Solve Real-Life Teaching Problems Through Research
WACO, Texas (April 15, 2014)—Which is better for learning — small groups or full-classroom instruction? Does individual teacher attention really improve a struggling student's reading? How do you get rambunctious boys to behave?
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WACO, Texas (April 15, 2014) – It's not always easy to get first responders and emergency workers to talk candidly about "the job," particularly something as devastating as the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in the City of West one year ago this week.
Sung Joon Jang, Ph.D., Will Join Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion
WACO, Texas (April 15, 2014) -- Sung Joon Jang, Ph.D., one of the nation's preeminent quantitative criminologists, has accepted a post as Research Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Program on Prosocial Behavior within Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR).
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Erin's Isle
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A sign on the wall reads: "There are no strangers here, only friends who have not yet met." The quote from Dublin's poet, William Butler Yeats, sets the tone for the casual setting of the Irish pub and restaurant in East Naples.
Erin's Isle is the oldest Irish pub in Collier County, celebrating the 25th-year since the Ward brothers, John and Mike, of Irish heritage, opened the restaurant's doors in 1983.
If a green beer and a shamrock on your shirt isn't enough to fully satisfy your desires to connect with Ireland this St. Patrick's Day, perhaps all that plus an Irish story pronounced with an authentic brogue accent, by Erin's Isle manager, Siobhan (pronounced Sha-von) Cummins, will do the trick!
Cummins is from an Irish country town in County Kildare, West of Dublin. She met a restaurant owner from the Naples area at a horse race track in Ireland a couple years ago. She was catering the event.
"He left his business card and asked if I'd be interested in coming to Florida to help at his restaurant. You get this all the time, men throwing business cards at you," she said.
A bad day at work and an itch to travel urged Cummins to make the call and see if the offer was real. She's been working in local Irish pubs ever since and takes a couple trips home to Ireland every year, she said.
After properly pouring a customer a pint of Guinness, Cummins is quick to tell an Irish joke made more effective by her lilt.
A shortened version of a Cummins' joke goes like this: A German man is sitting at the pub and a fly falls in his pint of Guinness. He says, "that's disgusting" and asks for another one. A fly falls in an Irish man's pint and the Irish man pick's the fly out, holding it upside down by its wing and says "spit it out man, spit it out!"
"Guinness is sacred. You don't mix it. You don't mess with a pint of Guinness," Cummins said.
She adds that the Irish don't actually drink more than other people. "They just hold it better."
In addition to jokes and Irish beer, Erin's Isle has a diverse menu including traditional items such as corned beef and cabbage, as well as the nontraditional. Menu items range from Irish stew to filet mignon and seafood.
The restaurant's name has several connections to Ireland's history. In Celtic times, the country of Ireland was often called Erin; off the coast of Ireland is an island, Aaron's Isle and Erin's Isle is the name of Dublin's soccer team, established in 1917.
Mike Ward says the name comes from his mom.
"She suggested the name years ago for John's first business. You can't say no to an Irish mom," he said.
There is live Irish entertainment at Erin's Isle every evening.
Ward said the St. Patrick's Day celebration at Erin's Isle this year is slightly scaled down because he is helping the Irish-American Club of Naples put on its celebration, Hooley on the Green, on the corner of U.S. 41 and Goodlette-Frank Road after the downtown Naples St. Patrick's Day parade, which begins at 11 a.m. March 15.
Even scaled back, Ward anticipates packing the house in addition to a tented area outside that will be a bit smaller than past years, beginning 3 p.m. March 17. Entertainers include Mike Bermingham, a vocalist who plays guitar, keyboard, accordion and banjo.
Advance tickets are on sale for the St. Patrick's Day dinner. The early seating from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. is $30 and includes dinner, entertainment and party favors. Dinner includes choices of corned beef and cabbage, Irish stew, grouper, lamb shanks or prime rib with Irish soda bread, choice of potato and soup or salad.
The late seating from 7:30 p.m. to close is $35 for an advance ticket and includes many of the same choices as well as salmon, roast leg of lamb, prime rib and live Maine lobster.
For more information about Erin's Isle Restaurant visit www.erinsisle.biz or call 774-1880. Erin's Isle is located at 6190 Collier Boulevard, between Marco Island and U.S. 41.


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The theme for our 2005 annual conference, Be a Part of It!, could not be more appropriate. Never has our association presented more opportunity for its members to participate than we do today!
There are many ways our members can contribute toward our future. Committee-level options include, but are not limited to, membership, education, nominating, design teams, and numerous other committees under consideration. We encourage you to get involved in your association! It is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve a work-life balance and we at the association realize the challenges.
We need you! If you are interested in volunteering for a committee or becoming a Board candidate, I encourage you to let us know. Speaking from personal experience, I can honestly say that my involvement on the Board has been one of great reward and personal achievement.
Through the association's proposed name change and an effort geared specifically to financial services, we've generated a great deal of interest and realized a net membership gain of 7 percent over the same time period last year. Our ongoing commitment is strengthened by the addition of numerous educational programming sessions tailored specifically to the needs of financial services meeting professionals.
I am grateful to John Touchette for his leadership over the past year. Upon his election to president, John outlined specific goals. I am proud to report we have achieved them with great aplomb, properly aligning our association for the future. These achievements include the following:
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The 2005 Annual Meeting design team, under the leadership of Debbie Boschee, worked hard creating a conference to meet all the educational and networking needs of members and hospitality partners — and achieved record attendance. The results of our bylaws ballot, which included the association name change, was shared at the conference, while we also welcomed the newest members of the Board.
It has been a very busy year, and the one ahead looks as if it will be too. I look forward to these exciting opportunities and to working with the Board, our members (current and future), and Hospitality Partners alike. I remain grateful to all of you for your support, and I encourage you all to get involved, stay involved, and Be a Part of It!
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At the most basic level, the job of a program is to process some input data and produce results. See figure-general-flow.
The "program" in the figure can be either a compiled program1 (such as ls), or it may be interpreted. In the latter case, a machine-executable program such as awk reads your program, and then uses the instructions in your program to process the data.
When you write a program, it usually consists of the following, very basic set of steps, as shown in figure-process-flow:
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If you were baking a cake, this might consist of laying out all the
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In baking a cake, the processing corresponds to the actual labor:
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After the cake comes out of the oven, you still have to wrap it in plastic wrap to keep anyone from tasting it, as well as wash the mixing bowls and utensils.
An algorithm is a detailed set of instructions necessary to accomplish a task, or process data. It is much the same as a recipe for baking a cake. Programs implement algorithms. Often, it is up to you to design the algorithm and implement it, simultaneously.
The "logical chunks" we talked about previously are called records, similar to the records a company keeps on employees, a school keeps for students, or a doctor keeps for patients. Each record has many component parts, such as first and last names, date of birth, address, and so on. The component parts are referred to as the fields of the record.
The act of reading data is termed input, and that of generating results, not too surprisingly, is termed output. They are often referred to together as "input/output," and even more often, as "I/O" for short. (You will also see "input" and "output" used as verbs.)
awk manages the reading of data for you, as well as the breaking it up into records and fields. Your program's job is to tell awk what to do with the data. You do this by describing patterns in the data to look for, and actions to execute when those patterns are seen. This data-driven nature of awk programs usually makes them both easier to write and easier to read.
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The selected creative and passionate Mobile Architect will join a growing technology team. (multi Architect opportunities available)
Qualified Mobile Architect candidates will have preferably some combination of many of the following:
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-Deep understanding of Android platform architecture with focus on device management, security, scalability and efficiency
-Native mobile application development experience, particularly with Android, preferably on tablet platform -Familiar with the mobile devices landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
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-Experienced in design and implementation of APIS using RESTful-style protocols -Experience with RDMBS (preferably MySQL) and No-SQL databases
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-Familiarity with Amazon cloud services (EC2, RDS etc.)
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-Experience with web, messaging, database and service side technologies
-Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
-Experience with agile development methodologies
-Experience with building both SaaS and on premise software solutions
Ideal candidates will be comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing work environment. You'll take a lead role in creating an overall mobile application technology roadmap and mobile application architecture in regards to delivering our new and innovative tablet-based product. This job will entail leading the identification of new technologies and best practices in the development of mobile applications.
Responsibilities of Mobile Architect:
As the Mobile architect you will be responsible for creating and documenting high quality, secure, high volume, high performance, and highly available Mobile architectures for our tablet based education platform.
-Collaborate with product managers to translate product requirements into system level architecture and high-level designs that can be used across multiple solutions
-Researching, identifying and evaluating appropriate technologies required to meet product development goals -Help create technology strategy, standards, development and coding practices
-Work individually and collectively with the other architects to ensure standards, architectures are consistent and integrated across the product
-Provide continuous support and guidance to developers to ensure high standards, efficiency, performance, data integrity, accuracy and security of applications.
Think creatively and big picture, yet know how to make pragmatic tradeoffs
-Create an environment of technical innovation for the growth and success of the team
The company is making anytime, anywhere learning an affordable reality for schools. By developing new distribution and delivery models, their products ease-and accelerate-a school's digital transition. Toward that end, the tablet bundles quality instructional content and intuitive classroom tools with wireless connectivity and mobile device management. They also provide high-quality training, project management and customer support to guide districts, schools and classrooms on their path to digital education.
Qualified candidates will have clear English writing and English speaking skills not requiring repeating during rapid English conversation.
This outstanding one of a kind career opportunity is based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York offering a generous competitive starting base salary range based on experience including a great bonus plan offering a fast track promotional opportunity and a great benefit offering. Interview, travel and relocation expenses provided. Your asking compensation will be submitted after your approval. Candidates with solid skills, competitive compensation requirements will be reviewed first.
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RBC | Because of drought conditions and severe hailstorms, Homemaker Furnishings of Craig will not be able to give away free pumpkins this October.
RBC | Because of drought conditions and severe hailstorms, Homemaker Furnishings of Craig will not be able to give away free pumpkins this October.
There were plenty of pumpkins for all the kids who attended the annual Pumpkin Patch giveaway sponsored by Homemaker Furnishings, Meeker Realty, White River Electric Association and the Meeker Chamber of Commerce on a beautiful fall day last Saturday in Meeker.
It took a while for members of the Meeker Chamber of Commerce and White River Electric Association to create a pumpkin patch on the courthouse lawn. More than 150 pumpkins were donated by Homemaker Furnishings.
MEEKER I Lifelong Meeker resident Regas Halandras was sworn in Tuesday night as the new mayor of Meeker, having moved up from his termed-out seat on the Meeker Town Board, where he had served eight years.
RANGELY I Rangely High School senior Tessa Slagle, one of two Colorado delegates chosen for the 2014 U.S. Senate Youth Program (USSYP), returned last month from "Washington Week," part of a national initiative aimed at helping students understand the inner workings of the U.S. government and to encourage careers in public service.
RANGELY I Twenty-two donors ages 6 to 43 donated a combined 247 inches of hair at the Pantene Beautiful Lengths ponytail cutting event on March 20 on the Colorado Northwestern Community College (CNCC) campus in Rangely.
Cary Baird, left, the community engagement specialist for Chevron, presents a check for $25,000 to Peggy Rector, president of the Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation, left, and CNCC President Russell George, right, during the 10th Annual CNCC Foundation Dinner on Saturday night at CNCC. The check, dinner tickets and prolific bidders in the silent and […]
MEEKER I On Friday afternoon, amid cloudy and breezy skies, more than 120 people attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Pioneers Medical Center, two miles northeast of downtown Meeker.
MEEKER I Meeker was well represented with 10 teams at the 2014 Western Slope Regional Destination Imagination Tournament in Rifle during the past weekend. Six of those teams will be going to the state competition in April.
MEEKER I Roughly 90 people were present the evening of March 12 as the Rio Blanco County commissioners unveiled their concept drawing for turning the old Meeker Elementary School into a new justice center, which would hold the county jail, courts, sheriff's office, county attorney and staff and court-related offices.
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Ginsberg's poetry with its exhilarating openness of subject and form and visionary qualities owes much to a tradition stretching back through Walt Whitman to William Blake. Added to this are influences from his Jewish background, the rhythms of jazz, his sexual orientation and his deep engagement with Zen Buddhism. His public performances were legendary, his friend Herbert Gold described him as "an Olympic-class ranter". We're delighted to be able to present several of Ginsberg's most famous poems in the Archive. The first of these, 'America', is an amazing rendition in front of a live audience recorded in 1956 - Ginsberg's irrepressible humour delight his audience even as his poem enumerates reasons to despair with contemporary American culture. The same target is evident in 'A Supermarket in California' with its garish neon light and piles of consumer goods. In this unlikely setting Ginsberg encounters Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman, making explicit the poetic mantle he wished to inherit. This studio recording is clear and more meditative in quality. Finally, in its 50th anniversary year, you can listen to Part II of 'Howl'. Here the mood darkens, 'America' has become 'Moloch' the name of the Canaanite god to whom child sacrifice was made. The humour has gone, replaced by a prophet-like anger and anguish. Although the sound quality is quite muffled the recording is unique, made at a public performance only a year after 'Howl' was published and capturing Ginsberg's electrifying effect on an audience.
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EDMONTON - This is about motherhood. And social media. And their powerful, sometimes toxic, cultural intersection.
Tuesday afternoon, a Grande Prairie mother stopped her Ram truck on a residential street. She popped out of the truck for a moment, leaving her seven-month-old baby daughter in the vehicle, strapped in her car seat. It was cold and the mother left the engine running to keep her lightly dressed baby warm. A witness said the mother was about six metres away when someone jumped into her idling vehicle and sped off with the baby still inside.
The girl was found more than 20 kilometres away, left outside a house near Grovedale. Luckily, Jason Hemerle, house-sitting for the absent owners, happened upon the infant as he left on his way to work.
The story meshed perfectly with the immediacy and viral nature of social media. Within minutes of the child's disappearance, Twitter and Facebook were filled with people posting details about the child and the truck. Before police issued the formal Amber Alert, before media outlets could post stories, news spread through thousands of people's personal social networks.
Almost as quickly, others rushed to condemn the mother for her supposed negligence in leaving the child unattended in a running vehicle.
Perhaps such instant "blame-the-victim" rhetoric is instinctive, a superstitious attempt to avert the evil eye. We want to believe such horrors are preventable because we want to believe they couldn't happen to us.
But as the adage goes, the risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed. As parents, we constantly assess risk. We guard against obvious, inherent dangers, with things like seatbelts and car seats and bicycle helmets. It's harder to guard against the unforeseeable or the freakishly unlikely.
This mother was parked in broad daylight in a nice neighbourhood, with people looking on. No one could reasonably expect such a bizarre, brazen theft in such a setting. Sure, there were steps she might have taken to prevent this. But you could drive yourself mad trying to protect yourself and your family against every random, improbable, unfortunate event.
As the social media networks were talking about the missing infant, an Edmonton mother was engaged in a different social media campaign. She'd taken to Twitter and Facebook and the blogosphere with an online campaign to give away her two school-aged daughters.
It's not a bad joke. The single mother, who has multiple sclerosis and lives in long-term care, says she doesn't want her kids in foster care. Instead, she's appealing to strangers to take in her daughters. Her blog features an attractive picture of the two pre-adolescent girls, free to a good home. The story went viral this week, with a boost from Global Television, as hundreds of thousands shared her blog. People wanted to help these girls, just as they had wanted to help the lost infant.
Now, it's obvious this family has been failed by a child welfare system, a legal system and a health-care system that didn't provide the support they needed. But no matter how desperate your circumstances, you can't just advertise your kids online, like surplus kittens. It's not only morally and legally questionable. It's wildly dangerous. Yet thousands earnestly shared the blog link, heedless of risks or consequences.
People lambasted the Grande Prairie mom for failing to guard against a wholly unforeseeable danger, for failing to see the world as wildly dangerous. Yet people also wanted to believe in a world so beneficent, it would be safe for a mother to give her children to an online stranger.
Perhaps that's not such a contradiction. In both cases, people wanted the illusion of control and power, the feeling that with a tweet or FB share, they could help a child. In both narratives, people wanted to believe, almost superstitiously, that a mother's true love could somehow keep her children safe from all harm.
But as we understand more and more about social media's potency to share and shape messages, we must take care. When sentimentality or moral outrage fuel an emotional mass or mob reaction, we can allow our individual judgment to be swamped by the web's pounding surf.
For all social media's illusion of community, we are ultimately outsiders, voyeurs to these painful family dramas. We can be glad the lost Grande Prairie baby is safe. We can hope, uneasily, that fate is as kind to those two Edmonton email@example.com
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For everyone who's already got a jailbroken ATV2 and have been scratching their heads as to what to do with it, here's your answer: XBMC has been released for the ATV2 - You asked for it: XBMC for AppleTV2, iPad, iPhone4. | XBMC
You'll need a jailbroken ATV2 to install XBMC. Once installed, you can stream (not transcode) media not allowed by iTunes to your ATV2 - this means watching AVI/DiVX from you Windows or Mac machine on the ATV2 without having to change the container or use Plex/Airplay.
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May 11, 2012
Military Bases Added to Non-Traditional Venue Growth Strategy for Soft Pretzel Icon
Lancaster, PA – (May 11, 2012) – Auntie Anne's, the franchisor of the world's largest hand-rolled soft pretzel chain, has expanded its non-traditional venue lineup to include military bases with the opening of a location at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. The new unit, which opened in mid-April at Freedom Crossing at Fort Bliss, marks a significant milestone for the iconic soft pretzel company whose growth plans include considerable focus in the development of locations in supplementary non-traditional venues. The new location is independently owned and operated by franchise partner, Milap Maniar.
Recognizing an opportunity to further expand the brand's appeal in locations outside the shopping mall, Auntie Anne's can now be found in non-traditional venues including entertainment centers, colleges and universities, large retailers, and transportation sites such as airports, train stations, and travel plazas. In 2011, the company opened 17 locations in "non-traditional" venues with 46 more under development this year.
"As our brand continues to evolve, we have been proactive in seeking out unique, high-traffic areas and being flexible and innovative with our store designs," said Brian Boycan, Director of Strategic Development for Auntie Anne's. "We are proud to begin serving military families in this capacity, and we believe military bases are a growth avenue for our brand."
With Auntie Anne's, there is no "one size fits all" store model. Instead, the company has the ability to tailor stores to better appeal to the venue and its traffic count. Auntie Anne's typical store layouts include in-line stores, baking kiosks and satellite retail units, but are flexible when examining all avenues of the setting including the venue at hand, available square footage, typical foot traffic, build out cost and the partner's access to capital.
Since the company's humble inception 24 years ago, Lancaster-based Auntie Anne's has experienced 22 years of positive same-store sales, demonstrating that the soft pretzel giant has staying power through a soft economy. In November 2010, Auntie Anne's was acquired by FOCUS Brands Inc.®, the franchisor and operator of over 2,200 Carvel®, Cinnabon®, Schlotzsky's®, and Moe's Southwest Grill® locations. For more information about the Auntie Anne's franchise opportunity and to view franchise partner testimonials, visit www.auntieannesfranchising.com.
An award-winning franchise system, Auntie Anne's is consistently ranked number one in the category of hand-rolled soft pretzels by Entrepreneur's Franchise 500, has received the World-Class Franchise® honor (the most prestigious award in franchising) for the past five years, and high rankings from Franchise Business Review's 2009, 2010, 2011 Franchisee Satisfaction Awards. Auntie Anne's is best known for mixing, twisting, and baking pretzels to golden brown perfection in full view of guests. Auntie Anne's Pretzels are available in a variety of flavors including Original, Cinnamon Sugar, Almond, Garlic, Pepperoni, and Sour Cream and Onion. Pretzel Stix and Nuggets offer a more portable option for pretzel lovers on the go, and the Pretzel Dog is a popular lunch item. Auntie Anne's Inc. is headquartered at 48-50 West Chestnut Street in Lancaster, Pa. 17603.
For more information, visit www.auntieannes.com, www.facebook.com/auntieannespretzels, www.twitter.com/ownauntieannes or www.youtube.com/auntieannespretzels.
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